Welcome to Through the Gaps, the UK fishing industry's most comprehensive information and image resource. Newlyn is England's largest fish market and where over 50 species are regularly landed from handline, trawl, net, ring net and pot vessels including #MSC Certified #Hake, #Cornish Sardine, handlined bass, pollack and mackerel. Art work, graphics and digital fishing industry images available from stock or on commission.
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Monday, 9 January 2017
First Monday fish auction for 2017
Three beam trawlers, one inshore, two netters and a dozen handliners landed fish for the first Monday market of the year...
including a huge trip of monk from the New Harmony...
huge box sized brill...
buyers go head-to-head...
a dozen boxes of witches - a big landing of these cousins to the megrim...
and a big landing of ling, once landed by the ton when Newlyn had a fleet of 50-60' longliners, back in the day...
some ray missed out on the spots...
good little dollop or red mullet for the beamer...
the At Ives mackerel boats enjoyed a bumper weekend with prices holding up making them happy men...
MSC Cornish hake courtesy of the Charisma...
with some real crackers...
and, unusually for Newlyn and these warmer waters, a small halibut...
more MSC Certified hake...
heavy clouds roll in from the west heralding what looks likely to be a rather inclement day...
not that will bother the ever-watchful Tom...
in his WWII watch cap popular with so many fishermen - get your own hand knitted classic watch cap here and keep the head dry and ears warm!